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P O R T F O L I O Me l i n a Ky p a r i s s i o u selected works 2015-2019
C O N T E N T S Curriculum Vitae
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Melina Kyparissiou architectural engineer
WORK EXPERIENCE
INFO Athens, Greece
2018 2019
6-month internship in the architecture studio Mecanismo in Madrid, from October 15th 2018 to Abril 26th 2019. I worked as member of the achitectural team on projects such as restoration of interior spaces, furniture design, and on two architectural competitions, undertaking tasks like 3d modeling, photorealistic view editing and technical drawing.
2015
3-week internship in the project of the conservation and restoration of the bell tower of Panormites Monastery in Symi island, Greece, with the architecture office Jordan F. Sinamides & Associates. I worked as member of the architectural team on the measuring and the documentation of the monument.
12/10/1993 +30 69 7273 0550 melinakyp12@gmail.com
E D U C AT I O N 2011 2018
Democritus University of Thrace
School of Architectural Engineering, Xanthi Thesis project: “Treeπιο: a vertical public space” 2016
CO N F E R E N C E S / CO M P E T I T I O N S 2019
University Camilo Jose Cela
Participation in the 2nd Public Space+ Conference, with the proposal “Digital Map: A subjective reading of Public Space”. Speakers Melina Kyparissiou, Alianna Psoma
School of Architecture and Technology Erasmus Exchange Program, Madrid 2008 2011
2nd High School of Pallini
2019
Concentrico + Rouen Competition, Concentrico05, Logroño, Spain
2018
Concentrico Competition, Concentrico05, Logroño, Spain
Athens
SKILLS Autocad Adobe Palette Rhinoceros Ms Office Model making
| expert | advanced | advanced | expert | advanced
DRIVING LICENSE category Β
INTERESTS photography, image & video editing, dance, climbing, hiking, travelling
1st Prize Participation in the architecture competition Concentrico + Rouen, as member of the project team of the architecture studio Mecanismo. https://concentrico.es/en/open-call-rouen/
2nd Prize Participation in the architecture competition Concentrico, as member of the project team of the architecture studio Mecanismo.
WORKSHOPS 2019
Factoría Cívica, CivicWise, Civic Design Meeting, Madrid, Spain Meeting of the CivicWise team in order to interchange thoughts and experiences concerning the civic spaces and participation in the Factoría Cívica workshop.
2018
Video game design, Superior School of Fine Arts & Democritus University
L A N G UAG E S Greek | native English | C2 Spanish | C2 French | B2
Public Space+, 2nd Greek Conference for the Public Space, TEE/TKM, Thessaloniki, Greece
of Thrace, Ioannina, Greece Participation in Strange Things workshop, where the participants experimented with the creation of 3d spaces in a video game environment, by using the Unity game engine.
P U B L I C AT I O N S 2019 Kyparissiou M., Siamanta Z., Psoma A., Thesis project:
Treeπιο | a vertical public space, in Grad review: architects & designers in greece, http://www.gradreview.gr/2017/06/treepio-enas-katakoryfos-dimosios-xoros.html
2019 Kyparissiou M., Psoma A., Proposal: Digital Map: A subjective reading of public
space, in Public Space+ Conference, ΤΕΕ/ΤΚΜ, IANOS publications, Thessaloniki, 2019
2018 Ferteklidi, A., Iloridou, S., Kortidou, E., Kyparissiou, M., Project: Escape, in
Mantzou P., Translogues: Explorations in Architecture, University Studio Press, Thessaloniki, 2018
2013 Kassara, N., Kyparissiou, M., Project: Little Gallery, in Architecture Students’
Associasion of DUTh, 3rd Annual Issue of Selected Undergraduate Projects, Xanthi, 2013
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THESIS PROJECT
T R E E Π Ι Ο | A ve r t i c a l p u b l i c s p a c e T H E S I S P R OJ EC T, D E M O C R I T U S U N I V E R S I T Y O F T H R AC E , X A N T H I , 2 0 1 8 T E A M : K Y PA R I S S I O U M . , S I A M A N TA Z . , P S O M A A . W H AT I S T R E E Π Ι Ο ? T R E E Π Ι O [trēpio] i s a b u i l d i n g , o r eve n b e t t e r, i s a n i n t e r va t i o n i n a b u i l d i n g , i n o rd e r t o b e c o m e a V E RT I C A L , P U B L I C , G R E E N a n d LU D I C V E RT I C A L S PAC E . TREEΠΙΟ is located in the city center of Thessaloniki, Greece, and more specifically on Tsimiski & Katouni Street.
a large abandoned shell in the center of the city, a carcass that nobody wants to interact with. so, how may architecture transform this carcass into a vertical public space full of joy and vividness?
The principal element of a public space is the
square .
Our intention was to create a bright , green and multilevel space that would allow free interaction between the users and would be situated in the core of the whole vertical space, in the middle floor levels. In order to do that, we had to bring the sunlight into this multi-storey building. So, we decided to make a
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HOLE !
The focus of our design was lying on experience design within space and our intention was to give people the opportunity of spontaneous use of the public space, so that it may produce multiple experiences . In the belief that the more defined the uses of a space are, the fewer freedom is left to the user, we designed spatial constructions without any specific or predetermined
use.
put your feet up
play
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T H E 3 D V I S UA L I Z AT I O N S TREEΠΙO is a ludic place which invites you to play with it. Therefore, TREEΠΙO became a video game, which you may find at: https://treepio.itch.io/treepio
T H E P L AY A R E A
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THESIS RESEARCH
THE HYBRID CITY AS A FIELD OF EXPERIENCE T H E S I S R E S E A R C H P R OJ EC T, D E M O C R I T U S U N I V E R S I T Y O F T H R AC E , XANTHI, 2018 T E A M : K Y PA R I S S I O U M . , S I A M A N TA Z . , P S O M A A .
The theoritic al research is about the experience in the cit y of the 21s t centur y. The role of the digit al media in our ever yday life is crucial and the ubiquitous connec tion to the new, digit al layer shapes an unprecedented experience which is wor th s tudying. The whole research is suppor ted by the corresponding references but also by a narr ative of a f ant as tic char ac ter. We focus in Danae, a young woman living in Athens, using her mobile phone as the basic tool of her ever yday life. This narr ation let us t ake a deeper look in the per sonal involvement in the hybrid (physic al+digit al) realit y in the contempor ar y cit y.
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A B S T R AC T Nowadays, the digit al media are more and more widely used and are becoming essential tools of urban life. Physic al and digit al world complement each other, and the experience and the relationship bet ween people and urban space are r adic ally changed. At the s ame time, the role of architec ture, as a mediator in the human-environment relationship, seems to be assumed today by the inter faces connec ting individuals to the digit al world.
KEY WORDS
In recent year s, there has been an increasing tendenc y to spread and integr ate inter faces in the physic al space in a way that is not always perceived by the user. G r adually, dipoles such as the public-private one, which were c ar acterizing the analogue world and tr aditionally def ined the degree of inter ac tion and communic ation with other s, are not remain unaf fec ted. The more the inter faces are being improved and become more and more invisible, the closer the t wo ends of these dipoles are to each other, and eventually c an be s aid that they are being abolished. From this abolition of dipoles emerges a patchwork , a hybrid situation, as the public spaces cease gr adually to have “pure� identities and the individuals are ac tive simult aneously in both the physic al and the digit al world.
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Therefore, we are already t alking about a new realit y that is expec ted to r adic ally change the way we inter ac t with each other and with space. At the s ame time, ques tions arise as to whether and how these development s af fec t urban life and societ y as well as our relationship with the public sphere. While, on the one hand, the development of new technologies is s aid to contribute to the death of public urban spaces such as squares, s treet s and park s, on the other hand, there is the view that it creates new forms of public sphere and inter ac tion that deser ves to explore more.
hybrid city experience personalized map interface
Castells M., The Rise of the Network Society, John Wiley & Sons, 2011 de Lange M., Moving Circles: Mobile Media and Playfull Identities, Erasmus University Rotterdam, 2010 de Souza e Silva A., Mobile Interfaces in Public Space, Routledge, 2012 Mitchell W., E-topia: Information and Communication Technologies and the Transformation of Urban Life, MIT Press, 2000 Shepard M., Sentient CIty: Ubiquitous Computing, Architecture and the Future of Urban Space, Architectural Leage of New York, 2011
In this new treat y, the architec t s, who are tr ained in the orches tr ation of complex relationships bet ween man and the environment , are c alled upon to t ake their place. Now that this relationship is augmented and therefore changed, it is challenging to revise the design methods to respond to the new hybrid realit y.
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WORKING AT MECANISMO
FORÊT / 1st PRIZE CO N C E N T R I CO + R O U E N CO M P E T I T I O N , Co n c e n t r i c o 0 5 , LO G R O Ñ O, 2 0 1 9 T E A M : M EC A N I S M O
The pavillion is located in Rouen, a city in southern France, and it is called FORÊT as it consists an interpretation of the forest that lays around the city. The team’s proposal was to intergate the forest in the unban environment, by using simple geometries that create interesting lighting and viewing effects. I worked on the project’s 3d modeling and the photorealistic views.
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CAMPUS CAFETERIA I N T E R I O R D E S I G N P R OJ EC T, X A N T H I , 2 0 1 8 T E A M : K Y PA R I S S I O U M . , P S O M A A . The campus cafeteria is located near the Architecture School and the School of Electical Engineering, in the University Campus of Xanthi. Our proposal includes an interior main space of the cafeteria, where the main facilities can be found, some semi-outdoor rest areas and an outdoor space that can be used for cultural events or sport activities. Β
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KALLITHEA R E S I D E N C I A L CO M P L E X I N S I K E L I A H I L L , AT H E N S , 2 0 1 7 T E A M : V I R G I OT I E . , V R E TA K A KO U I . , Z A N N I KO U K . , K Y PA R I S S I O U M . , P S O M A A . The residential complex is located in Kallithea, a desnely populated area in the city center of Athens. Through its form and structure, the complex makes a dialogue with the Sikelia Hill, and creates a new public space for the neighborhood in its foots. Building and hill consist the two borders or “the hug� in which people can meet, protected from the overcrowded urban environment. The complex includes a local market, culture center, labs and a restaurant for collective use.
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